Quotes About Muertos

#1. Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

Floyd Skloot

#2. Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.

Michael Dirda

#3. Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Clay Shirky

#4. Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

Rumi

#5. I'm not even sure If I'm awake now.

Will Graham

#6. It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

Sean Kingston

#7. Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Joel Salatin

#8. He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

Sun Tzu

#9. I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Adrienne Rich